Catch them young is what presents a picture of the prospective diehard generation in the Kashmir valley today. It is now almost three decades that the boys and girls born in the interim have learnt to pursue the mission ingrained in them — to liberate Kashmir from the occupation forces of India.

Agartala, May 23,2018 (TVN): Dr. R. Lalthangliana, the vice – president of the opposition Mizo National Front ( MNF) and former minister of Mizoram visited Jampui Hill today. The eleven members team of visitors are hoisted by the Mizo Convention ( MC) of Jampui Hill. The main purpose of the [ ... ]

Feeling low? Try hiking or spending time outdoors, say scientists who have found that engaging with natural environment contributes to a person's overall well-being.

Researchers, including those from Oregon State University (OSU) in the US, analysed results from more than 4,400 respondents to an online survey.

They used about 13 different metrics to illustrate the relationship between overall life satisfaction and engaging with the natural environment.

Among those metrics were community activities, access to wild resources, stress eased by time outdoors, and trust in policymakers.

Researchers found that 11 of the 13 had a positive correlation to overall life satisfaction.

They quantified the relationship between well-being and six common mechanisms by which nature affects well-being: social and cultural events, trust in governance, access to local wild resources, sense of place, outdoor recreation, and psychological benefits from time outdoors.

"The links between ecological conditions, like drinking water and air quality, and objective well-being have been studied quite a bit," said Kelly Biedenweg of OSU.

"However, the connection between various aspects of engaging the natural environment and overall subjective well- being have rarely been looked at," Biedenweg said.

"We wanted to identify the relative importance of diverse, nature-oriented experiences on a person's overall life satisfaction assessment and statistically prove the relationship between happiness/life satisfaction and engaging with nature in many different ways," she said.

"Whether people feel like things are fair and they have a voice in process of making decisions and whether governance is transparent - those are the foundations of why people even can interact with nature," she said.

"The fact that trust in governance was a significant predictor of life satisfaction – in fact, the most statistically significant predictor of the ones we looked at – it was nice to see that come out of the research. The way we manage is the gateway to people being able to get livelihoods and satisfaction from nature," Biedenweg said.

KOLKATA, May 5,2018: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will meet in Shantiniketan on May 25 for the inauguration of the “Bangladesh Bhawan” Tagore museum.

Sheikh Hasina is expected to pay a two-day visit to West Bengal on May 24-25 to formally inaugurate the Bangladesh Bhaban at Visva-Bharati in Santiniketan and receive an honorary doctorate from Kazi Nazrul University in Asansol.

Kazi Nazrul University, a public university in West Bengal’s Asansol, has decided to confer an honorary doctorate on Hasina. It may take place on May 24 and the Indian prime minister, who is the chancellor of the university, might confer the honorary degree on Hasina.

The Inspector General of BSF S. R. Ojha is a 1989 batch IPS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre. He is a honours graduate in English from DAV College, Chandigarh and during his distinguished career spanning 29 years, he has held many important portfolios. He was Additional DG of Himachal Pradesh police before taking over charge as IG of BSF, Tripura Frontier on September, 2017. Here is an exclusive interview with tripuravision.com at his office in Shalbagan.